iPad Survives lodged `Ride in Car's Bumper - Yahoo! News (blog)

A 23-year-old recent college graduate from Georgia may have just unintentionally had a role in the best commercial for Apple’s iPad.

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Cris, of Marietta, Ga., drove for nearly one hour with a stranger’s iPad wedged in the bumper of her Nissan Sentra after the device flew off the roof of another car, bounced onto the roadway and into her car’s bumper.

“I went to Target and ran errands with this iPad hanging out of my bumper. and had no clue,” Cris told ABCNews.com. “I’m not even sure how I missed it other than I do not check my bumper for random dislodged electronics.”

Cris was driving last Friday on a residential road in Marietta when another car pulled in front of her. She saw something fly off the car’s roof and instinctively hit the brakes of her own car, bracing for impact, but then felt nothing.

It was only after she was back home, she discovered That the errant iPad, thanks to her dad.

“My dad came in and said, ‘Why is there an iPad in your car,’” Cris Recalled. “I got scared and said, ‘Did someone throw something in the sunroof of my car,’ and he said, ‘Well, there’s an iPad in the bumper of your car.’”

Cris

raced outside to see for herself That there was, in fact, an iPad lodged `in her car. She took a photo because she knew it would be too unreal for anyone to believe she is told and posted the photo to her Facebook page, where it spread online and has now been viewed more than two million times.

(Credit: Alexa Cris)

Cris’s dad, Nick, dislodged the iPad using a hammer and, perhaps the most unreal of all, the iPad still worked and, apart from broken glass on the front, was hardly damaged.

“It was so remarkable That it was thrown from the roof of the car at 40 mph and still looked like that,” she said. “It looked like nothing had happened to the back of the iPad.”

The iPad’s owner had smartly locked his home screen but Cris left it unable to track him down. On Sunday, after an unsuccessful trip to the Apple store where employees were amazed to hear her story but unable to release the owner’s information, and phone number Appeared on the home screen.

“The owner used the ‘Find my iPhone’ app so his number popped up,” Cris said. “I was scared to call him thinking he would not believe me but we had a good laugh.”

When they met

on Monday to return the device, the iPad’s owner, who does not want to be Identified, Cris told he’d left his wallet and iPad on the roof of his car. He found his wallet in his driveway and, Eventually, now, his iPad in Cris’s bumper.

The iPad owner got a new iPad through Apple warrants his plan and has offered to pay for the new bumper Cris now needs for her car.

Cris describes herself as “Apple-less” when it comes to her own technology profile says but this experience may just drive her to buy an iPhone herself.

“Now that I have seen this, if they make as durable as iPhones iPads,” she said. “But I’m not the one dropping them.’m Just catching them.”

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